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Created August 11, 2012 08:00
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An AppleScript file to open a new tab in Terminal.app and immediately execute a given command.
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gistfile1.applescript
on run argv
if (count argv) is not equal to 0 then
tell application "Terminal"
activate
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Terminal.app" to keystroke "t" using command down
do script item 1 of argv in front window
end tell
#else
# display alert "Oops!" message "You didn't pass any parameters to this script!" as critical
end if
end run
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The 'display alert' line will only work if the script is compiled into a .app

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